{"id":367570,"date":"2026-02-23T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=367570"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:30:29","slug":"perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=367570","title":{"rendered":"Perks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airlines\/2026\/02\/13\/government-shutdown-dhs-air-travel\/88669021007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/usatoday-government-shutdown-2026.jpg\" alt=\"government shutdown\" width=\"100%\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another government shutdown \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>We got a message from Southwest that the government shutdown may delay and affect flights, so we went to the airport buttcrack early for our flight that wasn\u2019t leaving until noon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/chase-sapphire-lounge-airstream1.jpg\" alt=\"chase sapphire lounge\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/chase-sapphire-lounge-airstream2.jpg\" alt=\"chase sapphire lounge\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed business as usual, and we went through TSA without a hitch. Luckily, Pammie has a <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/a1\/25Q3\/sapphire\/dual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Sapphire Reserve<\/a> credit card which gives us access to the club lounge with free food and drinks. There was this cute airstream with the most delicious Mexican food, which I washed down with my favorite Horchata Cold Brew Oat Latte from Peet\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>We hung out in the lounge for a while before heading to our gate, where we met a woman who was on a layover on her way back home to Hawaii. We mentioned we were just in town for the music festival and Spring Training, and she casually was like, &#8216;Oh, I work for a baseball team.&#8217; &#8216;WHICH TEAM?&#8217; we ask. She was like, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesavbananas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Savannah Bananas<\/a>!&#8217; I told her I&#8217;m going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinestcollective.com\/event\/savannah-bananas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banana Ball<\/a> game at Petco next month! \ud83c\udf4c\u26be  We&#8217;re instagram friends now, and I&#8217;m def hitting her up when I go.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/linkedin-padres-designer.jpg\" alt=\"linkedin\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>I saw that the Padres were hiring a Senior Graphic Designer, but the salary is half what I make now \ud83d\ude05 Might be worth it if the perks are free games and suites \ud83d\ude1c<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/southwest-phx-san.jpg\" alt=\"southwest airplane\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IFK3P6KyGQ?si=egCfTwP5Wg-uz0V4&amp;start=75\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Till next time, PHX \u270c\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another government shutdown \ud83d\ude44 We got a message from Southwest that the government shutdown may delay and affect flights, so we went to the airport buttcrack early for our flight that wasn\u2019t leaving until noon. Everything seemed business as usual, and we went through TSA without a hitch. Luckily, Pammie has a Chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367570"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367594,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367570\/revisions\/367594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}